Nutrient-Rich aka The Blarf Badge

[Voltor]

For radiation armor: TURN OFF particle shield and for Bio Armor: TURN OFF the Ablative Carapace

 

If the above powers are on, your tank or brute or scrapper will be clicking Blarf for a long, long time.

Blarf's location in Pocket D, if he is not attached to a character and followign them around is:   [-156.8 0.0 -776.1]

[Glacier Peak]

Blarf just needs a nibble! No need to keep being defeated over and over. 

[Voltor]

I kept clicking and nothing happened until my alt dropped and had to hospital and the badge dinged.

[Glacier Peak]

16 minutes ago, Voltor said:

I kept clicking and nothing happened until my alt dropped and had to hospital and the badge dinged.

That is the way to get the badge. Blarf needs to eat the player. That's why the badge is called 'Nutrient Rich.'

[lemming]

Also, Blarf is shown on the mini map

[Voltor]

1 hour ago, lemming said:

Also, Blarf is shown on the mini map

 

posted coords to be nice in case some peopel dont look at the map 🙂

[Zhym]

So is the idea just to keep clicking on Blarf until it...what, does massive damage and kills you?  I've been clicking on it for like 15 minutes, seen others get killed, but so far nothing.

 

I'm on a DP/MC blaster, FWIW.

 

Ah, never mind.  Finally got it.  At least in my case, it involved clicking on Blarf a lot in rapid succession.

Edited July 24, 2024 by Zhym

[Glacier Peak]

37 minutes ago, Zhym said:

So is the idea just to keep clicking on Blarf until it...what, does massive damage and kills you?  I've been clicking on it for like 15 minutes, seen others get killed, but so far nothing.

 

I'm on a DP/MC blaster, FWIW.

 

Ah, never mind.  Finally got it.  At least in my case, it involved clicking on Blarf a lot in rapid succession.

Just let it defeat you and you'll get it. Blarf is consuming the player and eventually eats them. That's why the badge is called Nutrient Rich.

[Zhym]

2 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

Just let it defeat you and you'll get it. Blarf is consuming the player and eventually eats them. That's why the badge is called Nutrient Rich.

"Let it defeat you" was the part I wasn't able to get to, though.  If I just clicked once every few seconds, I only took minor DoT of about -1 per second.  I had to basically click repeatedly and quickly to get it to do the big damage attack.

[Glacier Peak]

2 hours ago, Zhym said:

"Let it defeat you" was the part I wasn't able to get to, though.  If I just clicked once every few seconds, I only took minor DoT of about -1 per second.  I had to basically click repeatedly and quickly to get it to do the big damage attack.

It is actually just doing -MaxHP debuff stacks on the player. You can see with each click on Blarf, it adds another stack. I've got up to 20, but if you can watch your own MaxHP in combat attributes, you'll see it plummet to 1, then Blarf does its attack. 

[JuggernautJ]

Is there any purpose to the "Legacy" Salvage you get from being Blarf's buddy?

[Glacier Peak]

27 minutes ago, JuggernautJ said:

Is there any purpose to the "Legacy" Salvage you get from being Blarf's buddy?

Nostalgia

[Hedgefund]

It's not just an armored set issue, my badger is a /plant blaster and had to turn off the sustain.

[lemming]

20 minutes ago, Hedgefund said:

It's not just an armored set issue, my badger is a /plant blaster and had to turn off the sustain.

I think it's anything with Absorb can cause issues since the DOT is very low and what Blarf does is debuff your HP cap, so any absorb potentially would protect you

[KaizenSoze]

Here is the method I used on my Night Widow, because it has auto resists and maxHP powers.

 

Use Flashback to get your level as low as you can. I used a level 9 mission.

 

Turn off all toggles. 

 

Click on Blarf as fast as you can. Notice on the icon bar the rapidly increasing -maxHP debuffs.

[tidge]

On 7/25/2024 at 7:27 PM, lemming said:

I think it's anything with Absorb can cause issues since the DOT is very low and what Blarf does is debuff your HP cap, so any absorb potentially would protect you

 

With default toggles (and auto-click) running, my Rad/Dark Tanker was the only one of my characters that couldn't be eaten by Blarf! (I haven't tried all of them, just that this one stood out)

 

Blarf is a very convenient way (at higher levels) to get the debt badges for the red side accolade. I find the little glob to be so much more convenient than trying to get things in Dark Astoria or GMs in Hazard Zones to repeatedly kill me.